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Smart grids – electrical grids that allow two-way communication between utilities and consumers – represent an exciting frontier in the Internet of Things, with ramifications for energy efficiency, weather resiliency and climate change, among others. As the Department of Energy writes, “[t]he Smart Grid represents an unprecedented opportunity to move the energy industry into a new era of reliability, availability, and efficiency that will contribute to our economic and environmental health.”

But like many aspects of the Internet of Things,… More

Blizzard—maker of the video games Diablo III and World of Warcraft—was sued last week in California over its two-factor authentication service. The complaint seeks class action status.

The concept of two-factor authentication should be familiar to anyone that has used RSA SecurID. When logging into an online service, users enter both a password and a single-use authentication code. Blizzard offers its customers the option of using authentication codes when logging into its Battle.net service.  … More

Interesting article in the Wall Street Journal about Google’s iPhone tracking.

Google Inc. and other advertising companies have been bypassing the privacy settings of millions of people using Apple Inc.’s Web browser on their iPhones and computers—tracking the Web-browsing habits of people who intended for that kind of monitoring to be blocked.

The companies used special computer code that tricks Apple’s Safari Web-browsing software into letting them monitor many users.… More